Libya vs Sudan

Libya vs Sudan: Military spending per person

Military spending per person: $216 in Libya in 2023 and $8 in Sudan in 2021, by SIPRI estimates. In 2008 the value was higher in Libya, by $81, or 1.83 times that in Sudan.

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US dollars per person · SIPRI

Libya vs Sudan: Military spending per personMilitary spending per person: $216 in Libya in 2023 and $8 in Sudan in 2021, by SIPRI estimates. In 2008 the value was higher in Libya, by $81, or 1.83 times that in Sudan.
LibyaSudanHighly uncertain

What the numbers say

  • Libya has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1997.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearLibyaSudan
2023$216–
2022$169–
2021–$8
2020–$20
2019–$16
2018–$23
2017–$104
2016–$67
2015–$58
2014$589–
2013$636–
2012$488–
2009–$93
2008$178$97
2007$106$75
2006$104$52
2005$119$38
2004$121$41
2003$97$13
2002$83$17
2001$153$14
2000$207$21
1999$223$16
1998$283$10
1997$249$4
1996–$4
1995–$6
1994–$10
1993–$11
1992–$8
1991–$61
1990–$54
1988–$18
  • Highly uncertain

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Good to know

  • What the country spends on its armed forces and defence for each person living there, in US dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation.
  • Source: Information from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Military Expenditure Database, https://doi.org/10.55163/CQGC9685.
  • Marked points are SIPRI’s own: a dot where it gives the figure as its estimate, a ring where it calls the figure highly uncertain.

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